A crastinal tense (
abbreviated
An abbreviation (from Latin ''brevis'', meaning ''short'') is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word ''abbrevia ...
) is a
future tense applied to a following or subsequent day. (''Crāstinō diē'' is the
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
for 'tomorrow'.)
Crastinal tense refers to an event which will occur tomorrow (in an absolute tense system) or the following day (in a
relative tense system). A post-crastinal tense indicates some time after tomorrow or the following day.
Crastinal future (as opposed to a more generic
near future) is uncommon, but is found in several Bantu and related languages, such as
Luganda and
Chichewa.
[Maxson, n. (2011), ''Chichewa for English Speakers'', p.41.]
References
Grammatical tenses
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